Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for PCI DSS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PCI DSS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 390 452 580
Rank change year-on-year +62 +128 -81
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 214 280 277
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.47% 0.31%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.44% 3.50% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 200 187
10th Percentile £409 £436 £363
25th Percentile £488 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £731 £666 £641
90th Percentile £828 £739 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £563 £528
% change year-on-year -6.67% +6.64% +17.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £37.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

PCI DSS is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,212 7,992 11,762
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.35% 13.36% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,921 5,491 8,030
10th Percentile £297 £275 £292
25th Percentile £405 £410 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £619
90th Percentile £750 £738 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 381 225 302
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.16 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.18 £18.50 £17.06
Median hourly rate £20.61 £37.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.05% +31.58% +35.71%
75th Percentile £45.00 £62.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.38 £77.50 £67.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £35.00 £21.05
% change year-on-year -48.57% +66.27% +0.24%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PCI DSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS in the UK

PCI DSS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PCI DSS.

Daily rate trend for PCI DSS in the UK

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PCI DSS in the UK

PCI DSS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PCI DSS.

Hourly rate trend for PCI DSS in the UK

PCI DSS
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PCI DSS within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +98 199 £575 -4.17% 96
UK excluding London +58 105 £525 -6.67% 73
Work from Home +108 103 £550 -6.78% 49
London +54 90 £625 +3.31% 31
South East +49 63 £525 -25.00% 28
North of England +15 22 £610 +16.19% 16
North West +17 17 £618 +23.50% 8
South West +27 14 £525 -16.00% 7
Scotland +28 8 £650 +51.52% 5
Yorkshire 0 4 - - 6
East of England +19 3 £575 +21.05% 10
East Midlands +18 1 £615 -1.60% 5
Midlands +16 1 £615 +2.50% 8

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (0.93%) CMS
1 2 (0.93%) Confluence
1 2 (0.93%) IIS
1 2 (0.93%) nginx
2 1 (0.47%) CICS
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.47%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.93%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.87%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.87%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 53 (24.77%) Azure
2 42 (19.63%) AWS
3 41 (19.16%) IaaS
3 41 (19.16%) PaaS
3 41 (19.16%) SaaS
4 14 (6.54%) GCP
5 10 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (4.21%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (3.74%) GitHub
8 6 (2.80%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (2.80%) Entra ID
9 5 (2.34%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.40%) AWS CloudTrail
10 3 (1.40%) AWS KMS
10 3 (1.40%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (0.93%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.93%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 2 (0.93%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 39 (18.22%) 5G
1 39 (18.22%) Broadband
2 19 (8.88%) Firewall
3 10 (4.67%) Network Security
4 7 (3.27%) TCP/IP
5 6 (2.80%) DNS
5 6 (2.80%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (1.87%) VPN
7 3 (1.40%) LAN
8 2 (0.93%) CTI
8 2 (0.93%) SAN
8 2 (0.93%) WAN
8 2 (0.93%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.47%) DMZ
9 1 (0.47%) SNA
9 1 (0.47%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (0.93%) Big Data
2 2 (0.93%) Hadoop
2 2 (0.93%) Snowflake Schema
2 2 (0.93%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.47%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (0.47%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (0.47%) DB2
3 1 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (3.74%) Rational DOORS
2 7 (3.27%) Burp Suite
2 7 (3.27%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.80%) JIRA
4 4 (1.87%) GitLab
5 3 (1.40%) Selenium
6 2 (0.93%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.93%) Capybara
6 2 (0.93%) Gradle
6 2 (0.93%) Maven
6 2 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.93%) Postman
7 1 (0.47%) Git
7 1 (0.47%) TestCafe
General
1 43 (20.09%) Social Skills
2 41 (19.16%) Finance
3 39 (18.22%) Law
3 39 (18.22%) Organisational Skills
4 19 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (7.01%) Back Office
5 15 (7.01%) Manufacturing
6 13 (6.07%) Banking
6 13 (6.07%) Marketing
7 11 (5.14%) Public Sector
8 8 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.80%) Retail
10 6 (2.80%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.34%) Electronics
11 5 (2.34%) Legal
12 2 (0.93%) Advertising
12 2 (0.93%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.93%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 41 (19.16%) Penetration Tester
1 41 (19.16%) Tester
2 39 (18.22%) Security Penetration Tester
2 39 (18.22%) Security Specialist
2 39 (18.22%) Security Tester
2 39 (18.22%) Senior
2 39 (18.22%) Testing Specialist
3 37 (17.29%) Architect
4 26 (12.15%) Lead
5 22 (10.28%) Consultant
6 19 (8.88%) Security Consultant
7 18 (8.41%) Analyst
8 14 (6.54%) Security Architect
9 13 (6.07%) Developer
10 10 (4.67%) Senior Developer
11 9 (4.21%) Lead Architect
11 9 (4.21%) Technical Leader
12 8 (3.74%) Security Engineer
12 8 (3.74%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 8 (3.74%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (18.22%) Web Services
2 8 (3.74%) .NET
3 5 (2.34%) REST
4 4 (1.87%) SAML
5 3 (1.40%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.93%) FIDO
6 2 (0.93%) JSON
6 2 (0.93%) OAuth
6 2 (0.93%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (0.93%) React
6 2 (0.93%) RESTful
6 2 (0.93%) WebKit
6 2 (0.93%) XML
7 1 (0.47%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.47%) JWT
7 1 (0.47%) LDAP
7 1 (0.47%) Spring
7 1 (0.47%) Spring Security
7 1 (0.47%) Spring WebFlux
7 1 (0.47%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 41 (19.16%) Mobile App
2 23 (10.75%) Management Information System
3 16 (7.48%) Cyber Threat
4 14 (6.54%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.21%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.74%) CESG
7 5 (2.34%) Cyber Defence
7 5 (2.34%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.87%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.40%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.40%) IoT
9 3 (1.40%) PKI
10 2 (0.93%) Contactless
10 2 (0.93%) Digital Wallet
10 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.47%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.47%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 1 (0.47%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.47%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.35%) Windows
2 14 (6.54%) Linux
3 9 (4.21%) Unix
4 6 (2.80%) Kali Linux
4 6 (2.80%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.40%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.47%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.47%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (43.93%) Cybersecurity
2 68 (31.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 56 (26.17%) Agile
4 54 (25.23%) Penetration Testing
5 51 (23.83%) Information Security
6 48 (22.43%) OWASP
6 48 (22.43%) Security Testing
7 42 (19.63%) Application Security
7 42 (19.63%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 36 (16.82%) Risk Management
9 33 (15.42%) DevOps
10 24 (11.21%) Cloud Security
11 22 (10.28%) Security Architecture
12 21 (9.81%) Design Patterns
12 21 (9.81%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (8.88%) SIEM
14 18 (8.41%) Security Operations
14 18 (8.41%) Software Engineering
15 17 (7.94%) Infrastructure as Code
16 16 (7.48%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (12.15%) Java
2 23 (10.75%) PowerShell
3 19 (8.88%) JavaScript
4 18 (8.41%) SQL
5 17 (7.94%) C#
5 17 (7.94%) Python
6 4 (1.87%) Ruby
7 3 (1.40%) C
8 2 (0.93%) C++
8 2 (0.93%) Go
8 2 (0.93%) Perl
8 2 (0.93%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.47%) Bash
9 1 (0.47%) Bicep
9 1 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 54 (25.23%) Security Cleared
2 47 (21.96%) OSCP
3 43 (20.09%) CREST Certified
4 39 (18.22%) GIAC
4 39 (18.22%) GPEN
4 39 (18.22%) SANS
5 36 (16.82%) Degree
6 25 (11.68%) CISM
6 25 (11.68%) CISSP
7 16 (7.48%) CISA
8 13 (6.07%) Master's Degree
8 13 (6.07%) SC Cleared
9 10 (4.67%) CEH
10 9 (4.21%) CompTIA Security+
10 9 (4.21%) SSCP
11 8 (3.74%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (3.74%) CISMP
11 8 (3.74%) ISACA
11 8 (3.74%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (3.27%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (35.51%) GDPR
2 63 (29.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 48 (22.43%) NIST
4 41 (19.16%) NCSC
5 14 (6.54%) HIPAA
6 13 (6.07%) GRC
7 9 (4.21%) PSD2
8 7 (3.27%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (3.27%) ISO 31000
8 7 (3.27%) NIST 800
9 6 (2.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (1.40%) COBIT
12 2 (0.93%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.93%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.93%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.47%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 11 (5.14%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.40%) Docker
4 2 (0.93%) Squid
4 2 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.93%) XenApp
5 1 (0.47%) RACF
Systems Management
1 19 (8.88%) Terraform
2 7 (3.27%) CA Service Virtualization
2 7 (3.27%) Nessus
3 6 (2.80%) Ansible
4 5 (2.34%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.87%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 3 (1.40%) Kibana
7 2 (0.93%) HAProxy
7 2 (0.93%) logstash
7 2 (0.93%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 2 (0.93%) Nmap
7 2 (0.93%) Packer
8 1 (0.47%) Grafana
8 1 (0.47%) SCCM
Vendors
1 39 (18.22%) Virgin Media
2 23 (10.75%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.27%) CA
3 7 (3.27%) Micro Focus
4 6 (2.80%) Cisco
5 5 (2.34%) SAP
5 5 (2.34%) Splunk
5 5 (2.34%) VMware
6 4 (1.87%) Google
7 3 (1.40%) IBM
7 3 (1.40%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.40%) Qualys
7 3 (1.40%) Teradata
8 2 (0.93%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.93%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.93%) Citrix
8 2 (0.93%) Databricks
8 2 (0.93%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.93%) PayPal
8 2 (0.93%) Rapid7